In 1999 writer/director Erik Sandberg and producer Andreas Rocksén examined how the Swedish police implemented the rejection of refugees who were denied asylum in Sweden. They produced two reports in National television about how the Swedish police deliberately sent refugees to the wrong countries, to get rid of them more easily. In Ghana, Africa, among others, Sweden could dump people for a few thousand dollars in compensation.
At the end of the 1990s, a debate started about Swedish racial biology and the forced sterilizations that followed in its tracks. For many it was unknown facts that the Swedish Government had expressed racist ideas that we otherwise learned to associate with Nazi Germany. In the debate it was also possible to get the impression that these dark chapters in our history were about a special time, a parenthesis in our history, something that lacked anchoring backwards and that also does not affect today's Sweden.